Ordination 26 October 1924 | Name Martin Lucas | |
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See Titular Archbishop of Adulis Consecration 29 October 1945
by Pietro Fumasoni Biondi Born 16 October 1894
Haarlem, Netherlands ( 1894-10-16 ) Died 3 March 1969(1969-03-03) (aged 74) | ||
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Martin Lucas (1894–1969) was a Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See.
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Lucas was born in Haarlem, Netherlands on 16 October 1894. He was ordained a priest of the Society of the Divine Word on 26 October 1924. He was appointed Apostolic Delegate to South Africa and Titular Archbishop of Adulis on 23 March 19314 September 1945. On 29 October 1945 he was ordained a bishop by Cardinal Pietro Fumasoni Biondi, who had himself been the Apostolic Delegate to India from 1916 to 1919, while the co-consecrators were Archbishop Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Titular Archbishop of Theodosiopolis in Arcadia and Bishop Johannes Hendrik Olav Smit, Titular Bishop of Paralus. On 3 December 1952 he was appointed to the Apostolic Internunciature to India. From 1956 to 1959, he served as an official of the Secretariat of State, after which he was the Apostolic Delegate to Scandinavia until he resigned in October 1961. Martin Lucas attended the Second Vatican Council.